Albert Francis Lasrado of Karnataka State, India was born on 10 April 1904. He married Blanche Therese D'Abreu and they had five children, Germaine, Adrian, Anthony, Gregory and Christina. He ended his career as a lieutenant colonel and died in April 2001, aged 97 years.

Born in 1903, David Rymal Mitchell received his medical education at the University of Toronto in 1927 and obtained his Fellowship in 1932. He spent his career specialising in urology, being appointed chief urologist at Toronto General Hospital in 1961, and was associate Professor of Surgery at Toro

Little is known about the life of Charles Alfred Keogh. He qualified in medicine from Queen's University, Belfast, the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and St Thomas's Hospital, London. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olaf after his work as an ENT surgeon with the Norwe

Samuel Scher started his medical studies at the University of Cape Town and, being a very bright student, he was awarded the MA in anatomy in 1926 with such brilliant classmates as Sir Solly Zuckerman, Tom Dry and David Slome. He then entered University College Hospital in London, qualified in 1930

Paul Jones was born in Bendigo, Victoria, on 4 November 1903, the second son of John James Jones. He attended Bendigo High School and won a scholarship to Melbourne University where he qualified MB BS in 1927. After working at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he moved to England where he held posts at S

John Havelock North was born on 16 April 1903 in Christchurch, New Zealand. His father, John James North, DD, was principal of the Baptist College, Auckland; his mother was Cecilia, née Haig. One brother, Alfred (later Sir), became President, Court of Appeal and the other, Kenneth, was Principal, Pa

Gopal Shankar Kelkar was born on 20 February 1900 in Talegaon (near Lonavla), India. His father, Shankar, was a journalist and editor of *Pune vaibhav* and his mother was Umabai, née Manutai. He attended the New English School and Fargusson College in Poona until 1920. He then studied at Grant Medic

John Bastow was born in India; his father, a civil engineer, was an Australian and his mother was an Englishwoman from Devonshire. His early days were spent in Australia; he was educated at Hutchings School, Hobart, Tasmania, and Ormond College, University of Melbourne, where he studied medicine.

William Gissane was born in Sydney on 26 April 1898 and educated at Ignatius College, where he captained the cricket and boxing and played rugby for the public schools of New South Wales. He served in the RAA during the first world war and returned to Australia to study medicine at the University of

John Stephen MacMahon was born at Cootamundra, New South Wales. His father was a solicitor practising there, but he also had a country property where the animals, the horses especially, fascinated the boy. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Goulburn, and from the very outset had an outstanding

John Glyn Bowen was born at Maestag, West Glamorgan, on May 13 1906 and was educated at Cardigan Grammar School. He entered the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1924 where he had a distinguished student career and graduated BSc with distinction. In 1927 he entered the London Hospital Medical Col

James Sloan Mutrie Robertson was born on 8 April 1905 and graduated in medicine at Glasgow University in 1928. He took the FRCS England in 1932 and was appointed gate surgeon to Glasgow Royal Infirmary. When it was decided to create new departments of orthopaedic surgery and neurosurgery he chose ne